Thirty-one children under the age of 15 years with verified medulloblastoma were treated at Addenbrookes Hospital from 1940 to 1976. In addition to surgical treatment, all received high dose irradiation to the whole neuraxis. Nine were still alive in 1979, of whom eight were examined. All these pati
Multidisciplinary treatment of medulloblastomas in childhood
✍ Scribed by Roberto Rivera-Luna; Fernando Rueda-Franco; M. Teresa Lanche-Guevara; Guillermo Martínez-Guerra
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 396 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0256-7040
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